Laurie Blouin may have been world slopestyle champion in 2017, but it was her silver medal in the same discipline of snowboarding at the Pyeongchang Olympics a year later that really made her a household name in Quebec. and slopestyle, an activity that more and more young Quebec snowboarders want to practice.
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“I have the impression that snowboarding, and especially slopestyle, was a little less known to everyone in Quebec. After winning that medal, people got to know me, who I was, and my sport. Now people recognize me in the street,” says the resident of Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier.